Perpetual Geek Machine: Show #00002
Tags: 5 hit combo, Comics, Dungeons and Dragons, E3, Joe Danger, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony
This one ladies and gentlemen is a barn burner! Luckily for everyone involved it never gets boring!
This show spends a good amount of time talking about video games, certainly more than we’re hoping to in PGM. However, it is E3 week so all the great gaming announcements are the biggest thing going in the nerd world. So we get down on all the news coming out of the Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo press conferences.
Now that’s not all we talked about, in fact we covered a ton more! Follow the link below to read about it all or just click to listen!Click here to listen to Perpetual Geek Machine: Show #00002
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SHOW NOTES
Hello Everybody! intro-3:11
What’cha Been Doing? 3:12 – 33:06 (all geek related activities on the table, though anticipate this one still being mostly about the games.)
- Dan – Wizard World Comic-Con Philadelphia, Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 with his normal friends and an all new “Encounters” session based in the world of Dark Sun at the local game shop, Joe Danger (PSN)
- Kevin – Joe Danger, Red Dead Redemption, End of Dexter Season 4
- Ryan – Finishing up Red Dead Redemption, Joe Danger, Split/Second demo, Super Stardust HD, Breaking Bad
Geek Spew 33:07 – 1:37:17 (Each of us brings a geek related news bit to the table to share and discuss, this week it’s all about E3)
- Ryan kicks off this Marathon segment by taking us through the Sony E3 2010 press conference.
- There was a big push for 3D games with games like Killzone 3 and Gran Turismo 5
- Huge focus on Playstation Move with a lengthy demo of a game called Sorcery.
- General confusion was the reaction to the PSN+ announcements not to mention Invizimals and a second season of The Tester.
- An uneven showing seems to be the general consensus with major kudos for Portal 2, LittleBigPlanet2, Twisted Metal and of course the soon to be classic Kevin Butler speech.
- The biggest metaton announcement was obviously Gabe Newell extolling the virtues of the PS3 and Portal 2 with Steamworks support.
- New PSP ad campaign. Sure, why not?
- Also, too many filler sizzle reels. This whole shebang took 2 hours and it felt like it.
- We were all a little sad to not get any info about the HD remakes of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus
- One of us is excited about the video store coming to Canada!
- Dan then walks us through the Microsoft press conference where much too much time was spend on Kinect.
- Trailers for the new Call of Duty: Black Ops, Gears of War 3, Fable 3, Halo Reach and a new Metal Gear Solid game
- The lion’s share of the show involved waving and talking to your Xbox, and suits telling us how much better this all is without a controller.
- You can have uncomfortable conversations with your twin sister with Kinect too!
- A few game demos for Kinect followed that showed people in various stages of jumping around on stage like they were having a seizure
- Skittles!
- ESPN!
- Also, there’s a new Xbox.
- Kevin has the great honor of going through the Nintendo conference, which was far and away our favorite of the 3.
- “The experience is the most important thing”
- a problem plagued demo of the new Zelda: Skyward Sword
- Announced Wii Party, Mario Sports, Just Dance 2, new Metroid, new Kirby, new Donkey Kong Country and other things that’ll sell a bajillion copies
- New Goldeneye that strangely inserts Daniel Craig into a Pierce Brosnen role
- Epic Mickey was everything Dan wanted it to be and impressed everyone else. (I mention that Ozwald the Lucky Rabbit is the bad guy in the game, but I was mistaken. He plays the hero in the “wasteland” world. -Dan)
- 3DS impressed us all, especially the no glasses part.
- Kid Icarus!
5 Hit Combo! 1:37:18 – 1:55:29 (Two of us battle for supremacy as we compare and debate our Top 5 lists. The winner plays again the next show, while the loser can only sit and judge as a new challenger appears! Play along with us, choose who you think does a better job.)
- Dan defends his crown going up against Kevin while Ryan sits as judge
- This show’s topic: Top 5 Sci-Fi movies that don’t rely on rayguns or explosions
- Next topic:Top 5 lamest superpowers
Homework 1:55:30 – End (a little extra assignment that we’ll discuss next show)
- Last show we assigned The Protomen Mega-Man inspired opera “Act II: The Father of Death”.
- For next show we’re going to read and discuss the soon to be AMC show and comic book The Walking Dead
- We’ll be reading Vol.1 – Days Gone By which collects issues #1-6 and Vol. 2 – Miles Behind Us which includes issues #7-12.
3 responses to “Perpetual Geek Machine: Show #00002”
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Excellent show fellas! I appreciate the synopsis of the E3 big 3 press conferences. Tried not to get too sucked in to the coverage this year, so that helps.
I will admit to skipping through your thoughts on the end of Red Dead Redemption. It’s nice to know that I’ve got a fantastic ending to look forward to but I can’t even listen to people talk about it and possibly discern how this awesome game might end.
Like the new format. Looking forward to future episodes.
Good job on the E3 recaps, guys. I followed a couple liveblogs for them as I was unable to watch them at work, and nothing really impressed me. The Nintendo conference was the best, but seeing as how I don’t have a Wii or DS and am not really interested in the 3DS, it was still boring. The Penny Arcade comic for the pressers was spot-on though.
I’m not sure about my feelings on Kinect and Move. I’m interested in them but not sure if I’m going to pick them up anytime soon. I am kind of interested in Dance Central, but you can sure as hell bet I wouldn’t be playing it when anybody else was around, and if they were, I’d be really really drunk first.
The new Metal Gear game looks interesting. More because I want to see Raiden level up in bad ass, than the cut-and-take action. Plus, it’s sure to have a crazy-ass, nonsensical story which should be fun.
It took me awhile to come up with movies that fit the 5-hit combo for show two. Too much of the sci-fi films I like tend to rely on ray guns and explosions. Oh well!
5) Gattaca – the whole premise behind the genetic engineering of people and the rising up to achieve something which you aren’t allowed to is great. The ending is awesome, also. Hits quite hard, IMO.
4) Disney’s Flight of the Navigator – I loved this show when I was younger. Time-traveling kid who was the only person able to pilot the UFO? Yes, please! You had the smart ass, Max, who took everything literally. His “Compliance” statement made me grin. The little aliens were neat, and the ship was bad ass as well. Plus, it had “I Get Around” by the Beach Boys in it!
3) Jurassic Park – It’s Jurassic Park. Not much more needs to be said, except the first time you experienced that T-rex roar in the theater or with an awesome surround sound setup? Freaking great!
2) Short Circuit – “Hey Laserlips, your mama was a snowblower!” Johnny 5 jumping around and accidentally squishing the grasshopper and telling them to reassemble the grasshopper. And just all of Ben’s mangling of terms. Great show!
1) Event Horizon – After listening to the podcast and hearing the love for Sunshine, I checked it out and it kinda gave me an Event Horizon vibe with the ‘going to save the other ship and shit goes wrong’ thing. I loved Event Horizon despite how messed up it is. Great show even if it is the one movie that my fiancee will never, ever watch again. She saw it once and that was more than enough for her. Sam Neill as Dr. Weir was great.
Other movies that bounced on and off the list were Equilibrium, The Matrix (although I feel it was probably too actiony) and Tron. I can’t wait for Legacy at the end of the year!
As I mentioned in my comments for Podcast #00001, I have listened to Father of Death quite often as well as the first album, The Protomen, after seeing a webcomic author post about them quite awhile ago (I’m thinking it may have been Brian Clevinger of Nuklear Power). While The Protomen album is good, I’m glad they dropped the static/raspiness that was present throughout the entire album for Father of Death.
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